CHAPTER 3
Give Your Brain a Break
WHICH ROUTE WILL YOU take to work today? Which online article will you read first? Do you want cream and sugar with your coffee? How will you respond to that email? By the time you climb into bed at night, you will have made hundreds, if not thousands, of decisions throughout the day. According to researchers at Cornell University, 226.7 decisions we make each day are about food alone.1 Would you like to make that a meal?
It’s not just decisions that we face. Every second, our senses transmit approximately 11 million bits of information to our brain.2 When you couple that with technology advances, it’s unbelievable how much information we are faced with on a daily basis. Because of all this, our brains have ...
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